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| How simple it would have been had I been there. Is the following true: 1) "would" is a auxiliary verb. 2) "have" is a auxiliary verb 3) "been" is a auxiliary verb. 4) "had" is a auxiliary verb? 5) "I" is a pronoun. 6) "been" is a verb? Thank you. |
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| EX: How simple it would have been had I been there. The following are true: 1) "would" is a modal auxiliary verb. 2) "have" is an auxiliary verb. 3) "been" is an auxiliary verb. 4) "had" is an auxiliary verb. 5) "I" is a subject pronoun. 6) "been" functions as the main verb. Here's the same sentence but re-ordered: EX: Had I been there, it would have been how simple. Note that, "had I" is another way of saying "If I had": EX: If I had been there . . . . => Had I been there . . . . Note also, "been . . . simple" is a copular structure; i.e., be simple, is simple, was simple, been simple. |
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| I read that up to 5 auxiliary verbs can be in a row in a sentence but have not been able to find an example of one. Do you have one? |
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| Got me on that one. |
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